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Off the Page: Margo Jefferson in conversation with Blair McClendon

Bette Howland. Photo: Jacob Howland/A Public Space

All She Wrote

On Bette Howland’s work and the idea of the “overlooked writer”
Rumaan Alam
Roger Federer playing at the 116th French Open, Stade Roland Garros, Paris, 2012. Kate Carine/Flickr

In the Loop

Geoff Dyer on tennis, art, and time
Asad Raza
Judith Bernstein, Equality, 1995, charcoal on paper, 47 1/2 × 63". From “Judith Bernstein: Cabinet of Horrors,” The Drawing Center, New York, courtesy the artist.

The Alt-Write

From the archives: A dystopian novel comments on the world as we know it
Fiona Maazel
Ladies' Tailors' Union protestors during the "Uprising of the 20,000" strike, New York, February 5, 1910. Library of Congress

Dirty Laundry

A labor organizer’s account of a wrenching and divisive union drive
Alex Press
paper trail
Lauren Michele Jackson. Northwestern University
Lauren Michele Jackson discusses criticism, theory, and style; Charlotte Shane on “failure to protect” laws
interviews
Philip Dray talks about his new history of a nineteenth-century New York lynching
Justin Slaughter
culture
Barkley L. Hendricks, Two!, 1966–67, oil on linen, 44 x 44". © Barkley L. Hendricks/Courtesy the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
Scenes from a life in basketball
Ross Gay
culture
Daniel Gordon, Still Life with Tennis Balls and Racket, 2020, ink-jet print, 15 x 20". Courtesy the artist, Huxley-Parlour, London and Kasmin, New York.
A tennis father’s complex quest for victory
Harmony Holiday
interviews
Kai Bosworth
Kai Bosworth on populist environmentalism, desire, and the anti-pipeline movement
Sara Van Horn and Cal Turner
fiction
Elif Batuman’s experiment in life-as-art-as-art
Rebecca Panovka
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